{"product_id":"journeying-from-canyon-de-chelly","title":"Journeying from Canyon De Chelly","description":"The human mind shapes disparate landscapes to its own contours in this rich and varied collection of poems by Catharine Savage Brosman. The canyon country of the Southwest, parts of Virginia, the Gulf Coast, France, and the Caribbean figure prominently in the poet's meditations on the alchemy that occurs in that groove where the mind meets the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrosman uses a variety of verse forms to explore her theme, which is the triumph of human perspective. Her technical mastery and virtuosity support a wisdom that is as distilled as the desert air. The title poem opens the collection and introduces the theme:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat was proposed in ecstasies of clouds\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e and later, vast illuminations only seems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e transcendent, trumpeting glory; the light\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e consumes itself, without desire. At dusk,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e images flush up on radiant wings, and fill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e the air with cries from distant flights.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout the volume, the poet ponders the connections between action and love, between present and past, between people and places. She displays an extraordinary sensitivity to landscapes and to the rituals of place, and in \"\"Peaches\"\":\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis fruit preserved in husbanding happiness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e for future weeks; something of autumn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e is already in their ripening,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e the reconciliation of reason and love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll of the poems speak to the search for a language by which to apprehend the experience of the world. In some, this search is more overt, as in \"\"Crossing to Evian\"\":\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e. . . Later, friends\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e will ask us for accounts, supposing that \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewe bring back something neat and telling, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e like a photograph; but have you tried to fit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e a glimpse of order, knowing and perfected\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e in its resplendent gaze, into the journey's\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e darkness, the moving contours of the mind?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrosman's voice is very much her own and one that has a great deal to say in this extraordinary work.","brand":"Louisiana State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55807330419032,"sku":"9780807116272","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780807116272.jpg?v=1779516070","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/journeying-from-canyon-de-chelly","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}